The primary mission and purpose of the Board is to enforce public policy related to the safe and effective practice of nursing in the interest of public welfare. As a regulatory agency of state government, the Board of Nursing accomplishes this mission as authorized by Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) Chapter 314—The KENTUCKY NURSING LAWS and attendant administrative regulations. In accomplishin...

The purpose of this study was to test measurement invariance of the WISC-IV factorial structure between genders. Both 10 and 15 subtest sets were tested on a nationally-representative sample of 2200 children (males N = 1100; females N = 1100). Results from multisample analyses supported partial measurement invariance. Except for a few subtle discrepancies involving correlated error terms, the h...

Cet article traite de la pratique l’évaluation l’intelligence des enfants au Maroc et biais inhérents à l’usage fréquent, Maroc, l’échelle d’intelligence Wechsler pour (WISC) dans sa version française. L’universalité du concept face aux différences culturelles est d’abord discutée, ainsi que les différen...

Weiss, Keith, Zhu, and Chen (2013a) and Weiss, Keith, Zhu, and Chen (2013b), this issue, report examinations of the factor structure of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition (WISC-IV), respectively; comparing Wechsler Hierarchical Model (W-HM) and Cattell–Horn–Carroll Hierarchical Model (CHC-HM), subtest cross-...

The present study aimed to investigate the test-retest reliability of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth edition (WISC-IV) in a sample 138 children with autism spectrum disorder...

The self-control study on thirty normal subjects of both genders (mean age 25.83 +/- 3.41 years) were taken in a self control study group and were tested for three types of Nostril breathing practices and Breath Awareness (BA) effects. Namely verbal recall performance of numerical data such as Digit Span Forward (DSF) and Digit Span Backward (DSB) as well associate learning memory function usin...

Abstract Introduction Narcolepsy can have deleterious impact on cognitive and psychosocial functioning. Adequate intellectual abilities are generally a protective factor for bio-psycho-social adjustments in chronic disorders. The main objective of this study was to describe sleep, repercussions between children with narcolepsy controls according the abilities’ classification. Methods Children u...